It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Like 'Firefly', this show could have gone on to be among the best ever made. This has extraordinary eye candy, great action, a superb cast, fantastic cars, outstanding tunes AND they bring so much funny you will bust some guts. If you don't own this on disc, you should! I can watch this every 2 or 3 years.

This is one of those sad sacrifices of American television. Despite how awesome a show is, it can get cancelled! Sad indeed. This is probably one of the best cop shows ever! It has that growing bond between partners, it has that contrast between partners, Bradley Whitford is simply amazing in his characters! He plays this old school but apparently messed up cop. Nothing he does is bony books. Hiss partner, played by Colin Hanks is his complete opposite, carrier minded, by the book. But the way the writers make theirs pair work is fantastic.This show also has a dash of romance on the side, it's amazingly funny too. You simply cannot go wrong with this one!

Today's TV is filled with crime series. There's CSI, NCIS and any other acronym you can think of. Half the shows start every episode with a death. It's sad, it's demotivational and although I understand how people can watch it, I have no idea how anyone can pay attention to 40min of slow paced repetitive crime solving. Sherlock is a good one. With 80-90min episodes, there're no dull moments and there's lots of surprises. OK, every season had just 3 episodes, which is clearly not enough for the American standard of +20 episodes of force fed dullness.On the other hand, comedy. Comedy shows are usually around 20-30min, but still 90% of the jokes are about sex. Californication did it right, embraced that fact and explored it. Unfortunately, that's just one show. It's really hard to find good comedy these days, because butt jokes sell (still, somehow).Having said that, I have absolutely no clue as to why this show was cancelled. 20 well-written episodes of 40min each. There's action, there're stunts, there're sex jokes, there're good jokes, there's tension between characters, there're deep characters and there're no limits. The good guys keep being exposed to different and funny situations that don't feel strange to the show. The bad guys aren't just sad pathetic creeps like in every crime drama and instead have interesting and/or funny traits that make them memorable without making them (too) ridiculous. The stories are surprising in a matter that they take turns that aren't usually explored.I'm giving this a 9, because there's always room for improvement. My first suggestion would be to not be cancelled. Then I'd give it 9,5 which rounds up to 10.

I love this show! I started watching it over the summer and I was hooked. The reason I started watching it was because it was created by Matt Nix, who is behind my other FAVE show, Burn Notice. In the Good Guys, Bradley Whitford as Dan Stark is side-splitting. He plays his character with such sincerity - Dan is a cop who loves being a cop. His partner, Jack Bailey (played by Colin Hanks) is the perfect foil. I really hope that this series hangs on. They did have a one or two episodes that seemed kind of sluggish, but the other episodes completely made up for them. Fox has a history of canceling shows before they really have a chance (Firefly, anyone?), but hopefully with 20-ish episodes under its belt, The Good Guys will be around for awhile.